Arcka
@Arcka@midwest.social
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
But where are the divisions and do other instances of government with separation of these roles divide the power in the same places?
Which powers have to go to the head of state for it to really be considered the head of state in more than just name?
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
When having these roles be distinct, aren’t the only pieces intrinsic to the head of state merely ceremonial?
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 3 weeks ago:
Many of the founding fathers were against political parties altogether and absolutely anticipated a two party equilibrium.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 weeks ago:
Gladly go back to every site having an animated ‘under construction’ gif.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought 5 weeks ago:
^ Obviously uneducated about the topic.
At least read up on JStark and the FGC-9.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 1 month ago:
Enabling the ability for purchasers to specify an arbitrary server to connect to would require a design change compared to how most games are recently. That feature used to be standard in the early years of online gaming.
We had online-only multiplayer games in the early 2000s with self-hosted servers supporting over 60 players per map. It’s absolutely possible to do better with today’s tech.
- Comment on Might be time to find another job 2 months ago:
How does that work since lactose isn’t a protein? Is it just that the affected people assumed they were intolerant of lactose, but it was actually the protein?
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 months ago:
If this is the ruling which causes you to lose trust that any legal system (not just the US’) aligns with morality, then I have to question where you’ve been all this time.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 months ago:
So which cameras can be used to overcome normal face coverings? piped.video/watch?v=yRFeS72IM6M
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 2 months ago:
Alternative reasons (not mutually exclusive):
- The organization has outdated policies that make delivering changes difficult.
- The systems used in development and delivery haven’t been invested in enough to automate repetitive steps, optimize workflow, and increase safety of changes.
Again, complex changes are obviously going to take more time, but if the simplest changes take significant time or effort then something is wrong.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 months ago:
They have already censored entire accounts at the request of governments.
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 4 months ago:
Decentralized isn’t the right word to use for a system like this.
Even though BS is going to appoint multiple different volunteer moderators (aka “Trusted Verifiers”) for this system, ultimate authority and control are entirely centralized with BS.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 4 months ago:
Check the Tech Ingredients YT channel.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 4 months ago:
Tech Ingredients YT channel made a diy microwave directed energy device to disrupt consumer drones.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 4 months ago:
More like: That could be useful, just not for (perhaps many) drones.
1km isn’t that far - the drones that were used for surveillance of Minneapolis protests in 2020 were around 6km up.
If they needed to get close for some reason, would a 1km deterrent be countered enough by approaching from directly above and using gravity for the last km?
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 4 months ago:
And green lasers
- Comment on Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program 4 months ago:
Yep, one of those things the IT department takes care of and most other people just need to know to keep their devices updated.
- Comment on i’m not religious. stop trying to force me to be. 5 months ago:
OP - If you don’t give thanks and praise FSM, you’ll find all your vermicelli will break into short pieces, and your macaroni will be mushy. Who would want to dine at your home then?
- Comment on How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL? 6 months ago:
I think a likely scenario would be for name changes, such as taking your partner’s surname after marriage.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 8 months ago:
“Sunscreen lotion” – a confused amalgamation of the previous terms – is not a thing and only misleads people
So confidently stated yet so very wrong. Citation - an example that’s available nationwide: no-ad.com/product/spf-85-sunscreen-lotion-3-oz/
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Don’t all modern browsers allow you to disable auto-playing of video, even per-site if desired?